My sect is full of geniuses

Chapter 245 Selecting Personal Disciples
At the foot of the mountain, Sauron and the rescued people had been waiting for a long time. Horned Blade Li Qi came down the mountain. Sauron hurriedly came up to meet him and said, "Master, where are we going now?"

After pondering for a moment, Li Qi said: "Fan Cheng!"

On the way, after communicating with some people, Li Qi learned that most of the families here are in Fancheng, or in the towns under the rule of Fancheng.

But the Taichu Sect was still quite far from the Central Plains, so naturally they couldn't make a special trip to the Central Plains for them. Fortunately, they told Li Qi that their caravan was in Fancheng and they were raising ransom, so Li Qi and the others didn't have to worry about it.

There were a few seriously injured in the team, so the speed was not too fast. They had to have the healing medicine given by Ouyang Qingsong before they went out to stabilize their injuries.

A full day later, the group finally arrived at Fancheng. Moss, the head of the Fancheng branch who had already received the news about his daughter, was waiting outside the city gate with officials from the city lord's palace. When Li Qi and his group appeared, Moss patted his horse and greeted them. He cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Sect Leader Li, I have long admired your name!"

"Secretary Moss, I have long admired you!"

After the two exchanged a few words, Moss asked the officials of the city lord's palace to take all the people rescued from Weihu Village for treatment. He clasped his fists and apologized to Li Qi: "This Weihu Village has been a disaster for Fancheng for a long time, but relying on the terrain, It’s so dangerous, the city lord and I failed to suppress the bandits several times. I’m really ashamed! I’d like to thank Sect Leader Li on behalf of the people of Fancheng!”

After all, I want to thank Li Qi when I get off the horse.

"Minister Moss, get up quickly." Dismounting and helping Moss up, Li Qi shook his head and said, "I just did it casually. By the way, where is the Lord of Fancheng?"

"Oh, the city lord led a team to Xingqing City to help His Majesty a few days ago."

"I see."

At the kind invitation of Moss, Li Qi and the others stayed for one more night. Early the next morning, Moss personally sent Li Qi and the others outside the city gate. Before leaving, Moss came to Li Qi's side. , said in a low voice: "I hope Sect Master Li can take more care of that girl of my family. She has never left the house since she was a child, and she has been spoiled by me. If she is disobedient, you can just let go and discipline her."

With a knowing smile, Li Qi agreed and sighed, it seems that no matter where they are, their parents' hearts are the same.

One day after returning to the sect, Li Qi drew up a procedure for selecting inner disciples, called Huang Feihong and Jiang He to discuss it for a while, and after correcting a few unreasonable places, Jiang He would post him on the task announcement column superior.

As soon as this announcement was posted, it caused an uproar in the Taichu Sect. Everyone put down what they were doing and gathered around the task posting column. Marley, who had the longest entry time among the crowd, touched his chin and sighed: "The suzerain actually wants to do it all at once this time." It is really rare to accept three direct disciples."

"Brother, could it be that the winner of the last selection was Senior Brother Sauron? No wonder Senior Brother Gu failed." A new disciple thought to himself.

Knocking on his head, Marley gave them some popular science: "What do you know? This is the first time that the sect master has openly accepted direct disciples. In the past, the direct disciples were all selected by the sect master himself. Think about it, how many senior sisters and brothers are there?" That’s not the cultivation of the Seven Meridians.”

"Oh, that's right." Rubbing his head, the disciple suddenly realized.

Among the crowd, Luo Yingmeng's thoughts moved slightly. Lanyue is the suzerain's direct disciple. If she also becomes a direct disciple, wouldn't she and Lanyue become real teachers and sisters? Will the suzerain agree with us then? Woolen cloth?
Frowning, Luo Ying dreamed of Li Qi's usual stern expression, waved her hand suddenly, and thought to herself, "No, the suzerain will definitely not allow the two of us to be together, yes, I must not participate in the competition."

"Sneeze!" Li Qi in the sect master's hall sneezed for no reason, rubbed his nose and said to himself: "Is this a cold? Forget it, let's think about how to solve the problem of Lan Yue and Luo Yingmeng. I don't know. Does Lanyue know what her childhood sweetheart is thinking?"

The onlookers didn't know that one of their second largest competitors had just given up his spot.

"It seems that there must be Senior Brother Gu for this time." Dong Yifeng rubbed his chin and said slightly.

Nodding in agreement, Wang Yang felt a little regretful. He had just passed the Fourth Meridian. Compared with many newcomers and talented disciples, he was still a little behind, and the possibility of passing the competition was not high.

"Who do you think will get the other two places?" An old disciple who had no hope of being a direct disciple suddenly said.

As soon as his words came out, there was a heated discussion among everyone present, and finally a unified answer was reached.

"Gu Nagano, Luo Yingmeng, Yideng."

But what they didn't know was that apart from Luo Yingmeng who had decided just now, Yideng was also determined to practice with the profound Buddhist monk Sweeping the Floor.

Amid everyone's discussion, seven days later, the Taichu Sect's selection competition for Li Qi's direct disciples began.

Sitting on a chair at the door of the main hall, Li Qi took the tea cup handed over by Ye Yi one by one, took a sip and asked: "Elder Huang, how many people are participating this time?"

Looking at the list of contestants, Huang Feihong was slightly embarrassed, but under Li Qi's curious eyes, he replied: "Well, there are 16 sect leaders in total."

"Oh, Elder Huang, you didn't rest yesterday, okay?"

"Ahem, no, it's just the list of contestants..." As an elder of the outer sect, Huang Feihong naturally knows the most talented people among the outer sect disciples, but what is surprising is that the two most powerful among them, Luo Yingmeng and Yi Lamp, did not participate.

Fearing that Li Qi might misunderstand that the two of them looked down on him, Huang Feihong comforted him when he handed over the list: "Sect Master, some disciples should feel that their cultivation is not enough. Don't blame them..."

Looking at the list, Li Qi found that Yideng and Luo Yingmeng were not on the list, and after hearing what Huang Feihong said, he immediately understood what he meant, shook his head and smiled wryly, "Who do you think I am? How could I blame them?" .”

Hearing this, Huang Feihong breathed a sigh of relief.

After taking a sip of tea, Li Qi thought to himself, this Yideng is now practicing with the sweeping monk, it is understandable that he does not want to worship Li Qi as his teacher, but what about this Luo Yingmeng?Could it be because of Li Lanyue...

Just when Li Qi was guessing, Jiang He, the host of the competition, announced loudly in the audience: "The competition has begun, and the contestants will come up to draw lots in order!"

The 16 people participating in the competition stood in the martial arts arena. Hearing Jiang He's words, Gu Nagano came out first, came to Jiang He, put his hand into the lottery bucket, and after a while, withdrew his hand and handed the small ball in his hand to Jiang He. crane.

He took the ball, glanced at it, raised it up and announced loudly: "Last one!"

Hearing Gu Nagano's number, the other [-] people who participated in the competition prayed one after another: "Don't get drawn to the top, don't."

Let’s talk about the competition format here. In the first round, the 16 people are divided into upper and lower halves, with eight people in each area, one pair of eights, two vs. seven, arranged in order.

The second round was still the same, until only four people were left in the third round, the competition system changed. The winners of the two groups were directly promoted to direct disciples, and the two losers competed in another round to determine the last place.

(End of this chapter)